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Page 17
... true that in its short life the novel has manifested a very high degree of such dynamism , and it is a real problem to avoid talking as if the novel went on steadily im- proving between , say , 1730 and 1880. We avoid confusing ...
... true that in its short life the novel has manifested a very high degree of such dynamism , and it is a real problem to avoid talking as if the novel went on steadily im- proving between , say , 1730 and 1880. We avoid confusing ...
Page 69
... true- hearted , the wild - hearted Saturday - night gang of true friends , Buddy , Dave and Mike . Snowing . Snow - cold . The cold of cities in the daddy of cities , New York . But true to us . Buddy , the ape - shouldered stood apart ...
... true- hearted , the wild - hearted Saturday - night gang of true friends , Buddy , Dave and Mike . Snowing . Snow - cold . The cold of cities in the daddy of cities , New York . But true to us . Buddy , the ape - shouldered stood apart ...
Page 92
... true . In the words of one commentator on the Tractatus : the principal theme of the book is the connection between lan- guage , or thought , and reality . The main thesis about this is that sentences , or their mental counterparts ...
... true . In the words of one commentator on the Tractatus : the principal theme of the book is the connection between lan- guage , or thought , and reality . The main thesis about this is that sentences , or their mental counterparts ...
Contents
Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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